My Office has 4 laptop computers connected through an top end Asus wireless router.
We had a 1 TD WD Netdrive named MS1 and a 2 TB WD Netdrive named MS2
When MS1 died we replaced it with a EX2 Ultra recently updated to OS5. I mention the upgrade only incidentally as the problem existed from the start and before and after the upgrade.
Now The Problem: Most of the time I want to write files to MS3 and i selec it from Windows Explorer it brings me to the control panel when what I really want is \share\ and its subfolders. How can I get it to to go the the files not the control panel. occasionally it goes to share but over half the time I wind up in the control panel.
Any help appreciated.
Thank you.
Create a shortcut to the location, or add a mapping operation to a drive letter in your user logon script.
Double clicking on the device in the tree will cause windows to spawn a browser window that takes you to the device’s management webpage. This is just microsoft being dumb. (I am of the opinion that this should be a right-click menu type operation, not the doubleclick operation, but MS apparently disagrees.)
When using a UNC path, the same issue can occur. If you use the wrong kind of slash in the path, it will interpret it as a webpage access attempt, not an SMB access attempt, and turn the file explorer window into an internet explorer session, and drop you at the management page. Annoying.
I would suggest having the share location get mapped to a drive letter, and then using the drive letter in windows explorer for your needs.
alternatively, if you cannot convince IT to hook you up with a mapping operation in your login script, create a shortcut that points to the UNC path.
